On 10/26/2014 02:13 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 13:51 26/10/2014 -0400, Tim Deaton wrote:
I'm currently running LO v4.2.6.3 on Windows 7, 64-bit, SP1.
I use Writer primarily to create notes for Bible study lessons. In
that process, I often copy text into Writer from other programs (most
likely e-Sword and TheWord (two free Bible software programs which, I
think, both use the SQLite open-source database program). The
template I use for this has the default tab-stop setting
(Tools|Options|LO Writer|General) set to 0.25 inch.
My problem is that when copying text passages from those (and perhaps
other) programs into LO, that default tab-stop gets reset to 0.5
inch, so that I have to go into the Options to change it back after
each copy/paste. I don't know when exactly this behavior started,
but I do know this resetting did not happen when I was using OOo and
then LO 3.x. It either started with LO 4.0 or 4.1.
I'm not sure why you would want to use default tab stops at all. They
are so close that you often need to add multiple consecutive tab
characters, and this is surely a recipe for your documents being
fragile and not robust to changes of font, paper size, printer,
platform, and so on? Tab stops are a property of paragraph styles. Why
not set up a paragraph style with just the tab stops you actually need
and then apply this style to the text (very easily done) immediately
after pasting?
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
What about using paste special the "Unformated text" option after
creating the paragraph style you want?
Dan
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